UK Digital Terrestrial TV (Freeview) - Feddit UK
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A magazine to discuss Digital Terrestrial Television (known as Freeview in the UK) Technical discussion and channel changes and rumours encouraged! Discussion of other DTT systems around the world is good too, as well as programmes, although there may be better groups for these topics. This is a complementary service to the @ukdtt@botsin.space [https://botsin.space/users/ukdtt] Mastodon bot (posts automated channel changes), and associated Discord/Linen server. * Channel list website: https://www.terrestrialtv.uk [https://www.terrestrialtv.uk] * Discord: https://discord.gg/ZMYc6ZBUxC [https://discord.gg/ZMYc6ZBUxC] * Linen: https://www.linen.dev/d/ukdtt [https://www.linen.dev/d/ukdtt] # Rules No discussion of illegal activities, eg (but not limited to) hacking of receivers, decoding PIN-protected channels, or where to download/watch TV shows illegally.

I’m re-posting this as I’ve moved the community to a different server for various reasons, and want to ensure anybody interested is aware.

It’s a community for discussion of the UK Freeview TV platform, with a bot which posts channel changes when they happen.

!dtt@feddit.uk

!dtt@feddit.uk (Lemmy local link)

@dtt@feddit.uk (Kbin local link)

@dtt@feddit.uk

https://feddit.uk/c/dtt (searching for this tends to produce the best results on Lemmy if the community isn’t known)

  • Obinice@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    Oooh, so niche! I’m intrigued :-)

    I remember when the UK only had 4 channels, Freeview is like a wild futuristic selection of soooo much stuff!

    Granted the picture is often way worse than old terrestrial on a CRT was, due to their modern tight bandwidth allocations, and most of what’s on is absolute drivel, but gosh there’s so much choice! 😮

    • Chris@rabbitea.rsOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Fedia.io (Kbin). With my bot running on Lemmy it made sense to move it so the bot and community were hosted in the same place - the federation wasn’t working reliably.

      • sabreW4K3@lemmy.tfEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        That’s fair. I think Federation should be better when Ernest finishes the kbin API, but nevertheless, good luck on feddit.uk

      • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.ukEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        How’s the bot working out for you? I see you’ve got one ticking over for the Bedfordshire community that seems to be producing a nice trickle of posts through the day - do you decide what gets posted or is it slow news week in Beds?

        • Chris@rabbitea.rsOPEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          The bot generally works OK (the problems are more the Pi it runs on has a somewhat flaky wifi connection so sometimes it posts stuff it shouldn’t post, or vice versa, than anything to do with Lemmy)

          The Bedfordshire one is something I knocked up to get some content flowing. The sources aren’t the best (lack of RSS feeds on websites these days) but, yes, it posts everything - every day is a slow news day in Beds 😄

          • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.ukEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            Well slow news data are better than the alternative, I suppose.

            Interesting to hear about how the bots work. I was probably wondering about something fancier.

            • Chris@rabbitea.rsOPEnglish
              2·
              1 year ago

              Yeah, I’ve never bothered to try to create one with a moderation queue. Seems like too much work!

              • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.ukEnglish
                1·
                1 year ago

                And you don’t need to if actual news is fairly predictable. I’d either want to funnel a flood into a trickle or check first for false positives. I am sure there’ll be plenty along eventually.